So I promised I would update 2 weeks ago and I didn't. But here I am now. Hopefully everybody had a good thanksgiving :) So anybody else enjoy Black Friday shopping? :) Christmas is coming up and im finally almost done with exams and finals! Yay! I would really like it if you guys would review even if you don't like it. I will be more than happy to have constructive criticism then nothing. So please enjoy and please review! Thanks. Authors note at the end!
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Chapter 8
****Rose pov****
I heard Dimitri say he was going to sit out there and wait until he could meet me. What if he recognizes me? Then I realize I have the charm from Chris to disguise my look so Dimitri won't recognize me. I quickly get dressed and slip on the necklace before looking in the mirror to make sure I didn't look like myself. Come on! Your Rose Hathaway stop acting so nervous! You've handled worse than this before. It's just Dimitri. With that I held my head up high and walked out of the bathroom.
I looked around the room and found Dimitri sitting on the couch looking more comfortable than any other time I'd seen him except for at the cabin. His legs were propped up on the ottoman and his hands were behind his head and he was watching me as I came out of the bathroom. He showed no interest in my appearance but I saw a flicker of something in his eyes that I didn't recognize in him.
"You must be the stray that Chris picked up. Now tell me. How do you not know what you are? You look as if you were a Dhampir before the change, so you must have an idea."
"I'm a drop out at one of the academy's nearby. I was walking in Novosibirsk one night and was attacked from behind. He dragged me into a nearby alley and bit my neck. I tried to struggle away but he overpowered me and ended up turning me. I came to a little while after that and had an overpowering urge to do something but I didn't know what it was. I ran into Chris and he helped me and showed me how to "fish". He asked if I had any place to stay that would keep me safe and of course I didn't so he kept me in a little cabin until I was able to control my thirst a little better and then he brought me here." I was surprised I could come up with a story like this off the top of my head. I must be smarted then I thought.
Dimitri looked surprised by the whole story and actually looked to believe me until he said," What was your name again? I didn't quite catch it. And I've never seen you around here before."
"My name is Viktoria Dragomirov. I went to St. Basil's Academy and was recently in America to visit some friends for a while." Hopefully he doesn't catch how I came up with the names. I just used his sister's first name and changed Lissa's to make it sound Russian.
"Hmm. Interesting. Do you by chance know the Belikova's?" Why would he want to know about his family? Was he worried about them? Then why doesn't he check up on them?
"I do. I was a friend of the youngest, Viktoria. Karolina had a baby girl named Zoya. Sonja though is pregnant now too. They really miss their brother though, Dimitri I think it was. Something happened to him and they really miss him." I felt like putting my hands over my mouth to stop myself from babbling even more. Where did this come from? When did I start babbling?
"They were a good family. I was a friend of their son Dimitri. I'm not sure what happened to him though. Well Chris it seems as if I was wrong and she isn't Rose. But I swear if you know anything you'll be dead when I figure it out." Dimitri strode out of the room as the last sentence hung in the air around us lingering.
"Why would he lie about his name?" I asked Chris once both doors had shut and locked.
"He still might be suspicious of who you are and if your telling the truth so he might have lied until he even remote trusts you like a strigoi can. He wants to make sure you won't be a threat and if you are he will get rid of you. Now your friends should be here soon and I still haven't made arrangement for them yet and where they will stay. We also need to come up with a plan on how to convince Dimitri to get close enough to Princess Vasilisa without killing her so she can change him back." He handed me a phone to call Lissa to figure out where they were and if they left yet. I could just check the bond but I had a feeling Adrian and Christian would want to talk to me too.
****Lissa pov****
We were filling up the plane in Italy and the little time we spent there made me want to go back again on an extended vacation with the gang. Maybe it could be a couple thing. Me and Christian, Rose and Dimitri, and Adrian and whoever he wants to bring. We could go shopping, and see all the sights, and go shopping. Think of all the designer clothes and accessories I could get! I got cut off with my Italy dream when Christian shook my shoulder to let me know we were taking off again and my phone was ringing. I checked to see who it was and it was Rose. I showed it to Christian and his eyebrows rose in questioning.
I quickly answered but before I could say anything Christian shouted," Rosie Posie! We miss you!" I shushed him and said," Hey Rose. What's up? Is something wrong?"
"No nothing's up. I was just wondering where you guys are? And I wanted to talk about the plan for changing Dimitri back." She's always trying to comfort me and calm me, though her voice sounded strained.
"Rose I know something is wrong. You don't sound like yourself? What's going on and don't lie this time. The truth." I said concerned about my sister.
"Dimitri was just here and I had to lie to him about who I was and he lied too. Liss I told him about his family and he didn't seem to really care. Shouldn't he care about them?" Rose said sounding worried about him.
"He's not your Dimitri anymore Rose. He's a strigoi. He's changed. He might not even have feeling towards his family anymore. And please tell me he didn't recognize you?" If he recognized her she could get hurt.
"No I had on a charm necklace that made me look different. Did you know they could do that Liss? Charm jewelry to change your appearance? I looked nothing like myself. I looked strigoi. I told him I was a friend of Viktoria, his sister. And he lied about who he was even though I know him. I have to keep up this appearance so he doesn't get angrier then what he is now." I heard a muffled voice talking to Rose and I wondered if it was the guy keeping her safe for us. She talked again after a minute saying," Sorry that was Chris. Liss when are you guys going to be here and how many guardians did you bring with?"
"We should be there in a couple hours. About sundown is when we will be landing. There's Adrian, Christian, Guardian Tanner, Eddie, your mom, Guardian Chase, and a few more guardians from the royal court. They had to get more guardians for the academy until the find who killed Kirova. The whole place is on lock down. Nobody gets in or out unless they have permission. Who do you think could have done it?" I couldn't come up with anyone that would want to kill Kirova. She wasn't that bad of a person.
"I don't know. Maybe somebody that wants to frame me because everybody knows how much I hate her. But I wouldn't kill her." Said Rose.
"But who really hates you that much Rose? There's a long list of people that hate you, but who would want to frame you for murder?" I really couldn't think of anybody.
"Well it obviously wasn't fire crotch over there. He loves me though even if he won't admit it. Jesse or Ralf really hate me but they wouldn't be able to kill anybody. Tasha maybe? She could have learned about Dimitri liking me and took out her anger to frame me. She does hate me." Rose said sounding stumped.
"I can't see Tasha killing somebody. She's already lost so much. She doesn't need to lose everything for hating you. We will figure it out eventually. Now to change Dimitri I have to have a charmed stake and stab him in the heart? How am I to do that? He would see me coming for miles and take me out in seconds." I said worriedly.
"I won't let that happen. He's not going to hurt my sister. I'll get him before that happens. I'll find some way to restrain him and give you a shot to his heart and that's where you come in and stake him. He won't be able to hurt you. You'll have to put a lot or force behind it. I would like to train you how to hold a stake and where to strike him at when you pierce his heart. It's not that easy."Rose said.
"Ok. I think Adrian and Christian should learn to for safety reasons. And I'm sure they won't mind." I looked at Christian and Adrian and they shook their heads saying they wouldn't mind. "Christian and Adrian don't have a problem with learning that. I think it will be good for them."
A stewardess walked by and said, "Princess I'm sorry but we need you to end your phone call. We will be landing soon. The flight was smoother then what was expected. The storm that was over part of Europe is gone and we are almost to the landing strip."
"Rose I have to go. We will be landing soon. And then we will head over there and finish discussing our plans. See you soon."
"Bye Liss." I hung up the phone and fastened my seatbelt for landing.
After the plane landed there were 2 SUV's waiting for us with tinted windows to protect us from the sun. We piled in and the guardians took the lead car and we took the follow car with a few guardians as protection. After about half an hour we were falling asleep as it was nighttime for us and the car ride would be a couple hours long until we arrived where we needed to be.
I woke up a few hours later and the sun was starting to set and we were in a large city. We pulled up to a large building and the guardians got out first and scoped around the area before coming to get us and take us inside. Janine checked all of us in and we walked up to our rooms. We had to have several room because we all couldn't share one. Eddie, Adrian, Christian and I were in 1 room and we had guardians in rooms next to us and across from us.
Janine said," We still have about half an hour before the sun is completely down. So make yourself comfortable and we will be back in a couple minutes to discuss strategy. Princess I suggest you call Rose again so she can be a part of this." She walked out of the room with Mikhail and some other guardians.
I freshened up some in the bathroom and then joined the guys back in the bedroom. I dialed Rose and she answered on the first ring.
"You know. It's just like I have a sixth sense when you are going to call. Or maybe it's just the bond. Hmm that's probably it." She said as an opening remark.
"Well you wanted to talk about this. So you will. The guardians should be back any minute now and we can start." As soon as I said that all of them walked in and stood along the wall." Speaking of, here they are. You guys can sit down. Nobody is going to hurt us here." I spoke to the guardians.
Janine said," Princess it's our job to protect you on this trip. We will watch guard and protect you like you should be."
"Ok. So Rose do you have any idea how this plan is going to work out?" I asked curiously.
"Ok. So I ad Chris get layouts of the cabin. We will have to find some way to lure Dimitri into the cabin without him being able to tell any of us are there. You will be hiding in a room and I was thinking I could give a signal and we would distract him and then you would come out and by then we would have him bound and you would stake him and change him back. We would have to think about this a lot more and get rid of the kinks in it. The first part is trying to figure out how to lure Dimitri into the cabin. I was thinking that either Chris or myself would do that. If he sees me he would surely follow me but he wouldn't let me go after he would get me. So Chris could lure him in and then we could proceed from there. Any objections to that part?" She questioned the group.
"If you were to lure him in how would we know that he would still go into the cabin in the first place? What if he took you and ran? We wouldn't be able to stop him without killing him then and I know you don't want that Rose." Janine said worriedly.
"That's why I was thinking Chris could do it. Dimitri isn't happy with Chris at the moment and I think if we worded the conversation correctly that Dimitri would follow him. Now once Dimitri is in here we will have to bind him quickly before he has time to react. That's where you guys come in. Binding and restraining him will be the hardest part. After that I could distract him and then Lissa and Adrian could come in. Adrian I was thinking you could use compulsion on him so he isn't aware of his surroundings. Then when that happens I was you, Lissa, to stake him and use as much strength and spirit as you can." Rose said in a breath looking proud that she was able to come up with this plan on her own.
"My lovely face won't be enough to distract him Lil Dhampir? I'm hurt." Joked Adrian.
"You're not handsome enough to distract him Adrian." Rose retaliated.
"Ok enough you too. This could go on for a while. How do you want us to bind him Rose? It will take a couple of us to do the job and we have to have something strong enough to restrain him long enough for the Princess to stake him. So we will need something stronger then a regular rope. Any suggestions?" Janine asked the other guards.
Eddie said "How about a chain of some sort? I'm sure we could find it at any hardware store around here and it should restrain him long enough to do what we need to do."
"I think that would work perfectly. Dimitri will get extremely mad when he sees me, so you guys will have to have a very strong grip on him so he won't break free and come after any of us." Said Rose.
Mikhail finally spoke up and said, "How much has he changed from when he was a Dhampir? I know he was a big guy and you were the only one to ever beat him. And now he's a Strigoi."
"That's a great question. From what I can tell physically he is strong and faster then a regular Strigoi would be with how fairly new he is at being a strigoi. He easily would beat a lot of the other strigoi that I saw there. He isn't as strong as Galina. She was his teacher when he was learning to become a guardian and she is very powerful so we need to avoid her if we come into contact with other Strigoi. I don't think he will be that hard to manage if we have a couple people on him at all times." Commented Rose.
"Well I think everything is all planned then. We can always discuss things when we get closer to when we are acting out this plan. When should that be?" Eddie asked Rose.
"I was thinking Thursday. Today is Monday so we would have plenty of time to mentally and physically prepare."
Well that's it! I felt bad for not updating when I said I would so I made the chapter the longest one yet. I hope you guys enjoyed. I was thinking about doing a Twilight story but then I remembered I barely have time to do this story anymore. When would I have time for that story? But here's what it would be about. If anybody wants me to do it tell me and I will think about it.
Victoria was able to kidnap Bella during New Moon. Alice saw a glimpse of Bella and Victoria and immediately rushed back to help her with the help of the whole family. But Edward. What will happen when Edward finds out and come back to Forks? Not the normal Bella, she will have more fire in her and won't let Victoria do what she wants to.
